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Guglielmo Marconi letter to Giuseppe Marconi, his father, dated London, 1 April 1896

by: Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937, author, correspondent

Publication date: 1896

Topics: Radio, History, Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937, Radio -- History

Collection: smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Language: Italian

Item Size: 24.7M

2 sheets, 1 folded (5 unnumbered pages) ; 21 cm

Letter to Marconi's father Giuseppe thanking him for his willingness to help Marconi buy a majority of shares in his own company, conditionally agreeing to share some profit with his brother Alfonso, and discussing Marconi's conversations with "maggiore Carr" from the British Corps of Royal Engineers and with "Price direttore supremo dei telegrafi brittannici" (that is, William Henry Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of the British General Post Office)

Title supplied by cataloger

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on lined paper

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system

Abstract: Letter to Marconi's father Giuseppe thanking him for his willingness to help Marconi buy a majority of shares in his own company, conditionally agreeing to share some profit with his brother Alfonso, and discussing Marconi's conversations with 'maggiore Carr' from the British Corps of Royal Engineers and with 'Price direttore supremo dei telegrafi brittannici' (that is, William Henry Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of the British General Post Office).

Addeddate: 2024-09-24 23:16:08

Associated-names: Marconi, Giuseppe, 1823-1904, addressee; Preece, William Henry, 1834-1913, associated name; Lende, H. W., Jr., donor, former owner; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers, associated name; Great Britain. Post Office, associated name; H.W. Lende, Jr. Manuscript Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)